by Stephen Halbrook
See also:
Controlled Opposition: What is it?
Controlled Opposition as a Means of Pacification
In the famous 1946 Walt Disney movie “Song of the South,” there is a scene where Brer Fox captures Brer Rabbit. It would seem all is lost for this mischievous bunny — until he, good trickster that he is, pleads:
“Whatever you do, please don’t throw me in that briar patch!”
Brer Fox, blinded by his disdain for Brer Rabbit, really believes that throwing him into the briar patch will be the worst thing for him. So in he goes.
Brer Rabbit, of course, takes advantage of Brer Fox’s gullibility and escapes. He successfully employs reverse psychology.
The idea behind reverse psychology is that by pushing for the opposite of what you want, the other person will choose to engage in the behavior that you desire.
Kendra Cherry, How Does Reverse Psychology Work? (verywellmind, April 4, 2023). Retrieved September 11, 2023, from https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-reverse-psychology-5115635
Everyone is aware of this tactic. Our susceptibility to it is ingrained in us from the time of childhood, where parents, siblings, friends, and enemies tell us to do something to get us to do the opposite.
“Don’t clean your room!”
“You’re too scared!”
“Whatever you do, don’t say anything!”
Controlled opposition takes advantage of our susceptibility to reverse psychology. When the Globalist elites want to get those who oppose their agenda to unwittingly support it, they may contrive opposition to a person or idea that they want them to actually support.
(The Globalists’ opponents are going to oppose them anyway; might as well take advantage of it.)
And so those targeted for this reverse psychology tactic will ideally be too fixated on the overt enemy (those telling them not to support this or that) to notice that the person or idea being attacked is really a covert enemy.
Take the Republican Party. Its platform is in opposition to the overt party of tyranny, the Democratic Party. But the Republican Party consistently shows itself to be hypocritical; it not only fails to protect liberty, it is complicit in fostering tyranny. (Minus some exceptions — usually regarding certain local Republican politicians.) Sometimes, it is worse than the Democrats.
One might think that the two parties are really one uniparty of tyranny. And they really are: two parties with the same owner — the Globalist elites.
Many realize this, and yet keep believing that this or that national Republican is different; he will “save us.” What psychologically aids in this is the hostility he gets from the Democrats, which basically says: “Whatever you do, don’t back this candidate’s agenda!”
Or: “Whatever you do, don’t throw tyranny into the briar patch!”
But tyranny escapes — or is really strengthened — again and again, because the Republican Party is controlled opposition, working on behalf of their Globalist masters.
This tactic has been very effective in getting unwavering support for Donald Trump. Despite his presidency resulting in perhaps the greatest victory for the Globalists ever (via his support for the totalitarian COVID narrative), many still do not get it.
They are so distracted, if you will, by all of the hatred of Trump’s enemies — who demand that we do not support him — that they base their support for Trump on his opposition (since “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”) instead of Trump himself: what he actually does. The more hatred for Trump by tyrannical Democrats, the more his actions should be supported — no matter how explicitly or implicitly tyrannical they might be themselves.
The political theater of late regarding the barrage of Trump indictments is a brilliant way to foster sympathy for him — and thus rejuvenate blind loyalty at a time when Trump’s followers are unhappy with his support for the COVID shot. (Can’t have a real man of the people, after all, filling the void.) Speaking of which …
Trump and vaccines
Trump was effective in getting support from those who understand that vaccines are dangerous. For instance, in a presidential debate in 2015, while he generally affirmed agreement with vaccination, he also acknowledged that vaccines could cause autism.
This, of course, invited anger from the establishment: “Whatever you do, DON’T support this anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist!” And so surely many did support him, thinking he was going to shake up the Pharma-controlled establishment.
But after Trump was in office, it was a different story — the Pharma Bunny escaped in the briar patch. in 2019, during a supposed measles outbreak, Trump said, “They have to get the [measles] shots. The vaccinations are so important.”
And then during the COVID scamdemic, Trump produced the COVID shot — perhaps the most deadly vaccine used on a massive scale in history — and had it distributed throughout the country. Just how many thousands or millions will ultimately die from it will have to be revealed on Judgement Day.
Trump has much to answer for, both in this life and the next — but reverse psychology has his followers fixated solely on the sins of his perceived opponents.
Reverse psychology and the implementation of the Federal Reserve
“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” — attributed to Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty
The greatest instrument in Globalist tyranny is the central bank, which serves the interests of the elites and not the people. It uses the power of fiat currency to control the economy and therefore those in positions of power and influence.
In our country, the central bank is the Federal Reserve, established in 1913 during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite its name, it is not as Federal as one might think, and there is no gold or silver in reserve to back its fiat currency. It is a cartel of private bankers who dictate U.S. policy via economic manipulations and the power of money.
The old reverse psychology/controlled opposition ploy was used to bring it about. Indeed, the establishment of the Federal Reserve is perhaps the most notorious example of the use of reverse psychology and controlled opposition.
In this case, it was those in the Democratic Party acting (either deliberately or practically/unwittingly) as controlled opposition against the banking elite — which put up a good show in making it seem like they opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve of New York itself says this of Woodrow Wilson’s seeming opposition to a central bank:
Wilson and his Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, forcefully opposed “any plan which concentrates control in the hands of the banks.”
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “The Founding of the Fed.” Retrieved August 30, 2023, from https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/history_article.html
G. Edward Griffin, in his excellent book, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, discusses how reverse psychology was employed to get the people to back controlled opposition (the Democratic Party) against Wall Street bankers (the “money trust”):
And so it came to pass that the monetary scientists carefully selected their candidate and set about to clear the way for his victory. The manuever was brilliant. Who would suspect that Wall Street would support a Democrat, especially when the Party platform contained the plank: “We oppose the so-called Aldrich Bill or the establishment of a central bank; and … what is known as the money trust.“
What irony it was. The Party of the working man, the Party of Thomas Jefferson — formed only a few generations earlier for the specific purpose of opposing a central bank — was now cheering a new leader who was a political captive of Wall Street bankers and who had agreed to the hidden agenda of establishing the Federal Reserve System. As George Harvey later boasted, the financiers “felt no animosity toward Mr. Wilson for such of his utterances as they regarded as radical and menacing to their interests. He had simply played the political game.”
G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, Fourth edition (Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 2002), 454. Quote from Ferdinand Lundberg, America’s Sixty Families (New York: Vanguard Press, 1937), 120.
As the Federal Reserve Act moved closer to its birth . . . both Aldrich and Vanderlip [of the “Money Trust”] threw themselves into a great public display of opposition. No opportunity was overlooked to make a statement to the press – or anyone else of public prominence – expressing their eternal animosity to this monstrous legislation. Ibid., 463.
In his autobiography, Treasury Secretary William McAdoo [Wilson’s son-in-law] offers this view:
“Bankers fought the Federal Reserve legislation – and every provision of the Federal Reserve Act – with the tireless energy of men fighting a forest fire. They said it was populistic, socialistic, half-baked, destructive, infantile, badly conceived and unworkable. …
“These interviews with bankers led me to an interesting conclusion. I perceived gradually, through all the haze and smoke of controversy, that the banking world was not really as opposed to the bill as it pretended to be.” Ibid., 464.
And so, Griffin writes:
That is the key to this entire episode: mass psychology. … [T]he public was skillfully led to believe that the “Money Trust” was mortally afraid of the proposed Federal Reserve Act. Ibid.
Larry Abraham sums up the use of controlled opposition to birth the Federal Reserve:
In order to support the fiction that the Federal Reserve Act was a “people’s bill,” the Insider financiers put up a smoke-screen of opposition to it. It was strictly a case of Br’er Rabbit begging not to be thrown into the briar patch. Both Aldrich and Vanderlip denounced what in actuality was their own bill. Nearly twenty-five years later Frank Vanderlip admitted: “Now although the Aldrich Federal Reserve Plan was defeated when it bore the name Aldrich, nevertheless its essential points were all contained in the plan that finally was adopted.”
Larry Abraham, Call it Conspiracy (Seattle, WA: Double A Publications, 1985), 56. Quote from Frank Vanderlip, “Farm Boy to Financier,” Saturday Evening Post (February 9, 1935), 72.
And so we see, whether it involves mass control (such as via the Federal Reserve), or mass genocide (such as via Trump’s COVID shot), reverse psychology and controlled opposition are a powerful combination to bring such evils about. Beware.
G. Edward Griffin on Donald Trump, the Federal Reserve, and controlled opposition
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